Germany · Diesel loco

BR 218

The BR 218 is a diesel loco from Germany in Train Sim World. Another DLC brings it to 15 routes.

Picture: DB BR 218 Diesel, Dovetail Games.

Where you can drive it

With another DLC

Own the route and one of the DLCs named after it, and you can drive it there.

In the game

Names in Dovetail's lists: BR 218, DB BR 218.

In these DLCs: DB BR 218 Diesel.

The real thing

A four-axle diesel-hydraulic locomotive of the Deutsche Bundesbahn, for passenger and freight trains on main and branch lines. It was the last and most numerous of the V 160 family, and the backbone of West Germany's main line diesel fleet from the 1970s.

Built by: Krupp, Henschel, Krauss-Maffei, MaK (Wikipedia)
Built: 1968; 1971-1979 (Wikipedia)
Number built: 12 prototypes, 398 main production, 1 as 218 399 rebuilt from 215 112 (Wikipedia)
Operators: DB, DB Railion (Wikipedia)
Top speed: 140 km/h (87 mph) / 90 km/h (55.9 mph) (Wikipedia)
Power: 1840 kW (2,467 hp) (TB10 MTU), 2061 kW (2,764 hp) (MTU TB11) (TB11 MTU), 1986 kW (2,663 hp) (Pielstick) (Wikipedia)
Wheel arrangement: Bo′Bo′ (Wikipedia)
Power type: Diesel-hydraulic (Wikipedia)
Safety systems: Sifa, PZB (Wikipedia)

Photo: Lars Steffens, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

From the English Wikipedia article DB Class 218 and Wikidata.

Sources. Dovetail's public DLC database and Steam store pages; English Wikipedia and Wikidata for the real train.